News for year 2017

ECE professors Anthony Rowe and Bruno Sinopoli, both pioneers in the area of indoor positioning for over a decade, are now advancing wireless broadband communications for use in extremely hostile environments such as burning buildings.

Can current technologies support the growing IoT platform? According to Swarun Kumar, the answer is no. To accommodate the vast number of devices we wish to enhance, or make ‘smart,’ he says we must upgrade our technology.

Pileggi and his graduate students have developed a simulation that could potentially help experts model and simulate the power grid more reliably, thereby protecting it from possible cybersecurity threats in the future.

By 2025, NSBE wants to see 10,000 black engineers graduating annually. Conventions are one way to attract students of all ages—from elementary school to those seeking graduate programs and full-time opportunities.

Millennials are stereotyped as being uninterested in economic trends, as statistics have shown that fewer millennials invest in property and stock than do previous generations. However, these five engineering students are proving that stereotype wrong.

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Vyas Sekar was awarded the Angel Jordan Early Career Professorship for his contributions in the academic and research sectors of Carnegie Mellon’s engineering department.

In a paper presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, a team of researchers presented a new architecture that addresses the context issue and other problems that exist in enterprise network security.

Morina, of Kosovo, will spend the next year in Zurich, Switzerland, after being awarded a Fulbright Study/Research Grant. She will conduct research at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, a joint institute of the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Bicyclist fatalities in 2015 were at their highest level since 1995–818 cyclists died and approximately 45,000 were injured. To reverse this alarming trend, Anthony Rowe says that early-warning collision systems that are making their way into our auto fleet must not only detect cyclists but also predict how they will move.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) gathered for a regional meeting and symposium at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute to discuss cybersecurity, which is now one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century.

As the President of the Austrian Scientists & Scholars in North America, Franchetti attends the Forum, a non-profit association that facilitates intellectual dialogue among diverse people to solve Europe’s most pressing societal issues.

CMU aims to build a talent pipeline into the cyber workforce by introducing computer security skills to middle and high school students through picoCTF, a free, online hacking contest that starts March 31, 2017.

Strecker has always remained committed to the university that helped him become an innovator in the computer industry. Through the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career Professorship, they hope to further the university’s excellence by supporting the most exceptional professors early in their careers.

Researchers received funding from the NSF’s Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) program to study the intersection between financial and physical infrastructure in response to disasters.